Born today 1802: Victor Hugo


	Born today 1802: Victor Hugo
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2-26-2008 10:12 AM
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/a388a4f4-d553-429f-a0be-489808b62858/DF2AA356-129E-4F00-9F42-91CE06652CA2/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org./w/index.php?title=Victor_Hugo&oldid=192759631" href="http://en.wikipedia.org./w/index.php?title=Victor_Hugo&oldid=192759631" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikipedia.org.</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org./w/index.php?title=Victor_Hugo&oldid=192759631"><TR><TH class="fn" colspan="2">Victor-Marie Hugo</TH></TR><TR><TD colspan="2"><A title="Victor Hugo.jpg" class="image" href="http://en.wikipedia.org./wiki/Image:Victor_Hugo.jpg"><IMG width="200" height="265" border="0" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Victor_Hugo.jpg/200px-Victor_Hugo.jpg" alt="" /></A></TD></TR></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org./w/index.php?title=Victor_Hugo&oldid=192759631"> (<A title="February 26" href="http://en.wikipedia.org./wiki/February_26">February 26</A>, <A title="1802" href="http://en.wikipedia.org./wiki/1802">1802</A> – <A title="May 22" href="http://en.wikipedia.org./wiki/May_22">May 22</A>, <A title="1885" href="http://en.wikipedia.org./wiki/1885">1885</A>) was a <A title="France" href="http://en.wikipedia.org./wiki/France">French</A> <A title="Poet" href="http://en.wikipedia.org./wiki/Poet">poet</A>, <A title="Playwright" href="http://en.wikipedia.org./wiki/Playwright">playwright</A>, <A title="Novelist" class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org./wiki/Novelist">novelist</A>, <A title="Essay" href="http://en.wikipedia.org./wiki/Essay">essayist</A>, visual artist, statesman, human rights campaigner, and perhaps the most influential exponent of the <A title="Romanticism" href="http://en.wikipedia.org./wiki/Romanticism">Romantic</A> movement in France</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org./w/index.php?title=Victor_Hugo&oldid=192759631">In France, Hugo's literary reputation rests primarily on his poetic and dramatic output and only secondarily on his novels</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org./w/index.php?title=Victor_Hugo&oldid=192759631">Among many volumes of poetry, <I><A title="fr:Les_Contemplations" class="extiw" href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Contemplations">Les Contemplations</A></I> and <I><A title="La Légende des siècles" href="http://en.wikipedia.org./wiki/La_L%C3%A9gende_des_si%C3%A8cles">La Légende des siècles</A></I> stand particularly high in critical esteem, and Hugo is sometimes identified as the greatest French poet</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org./w/index.php?title=Victor_Hugo&oldid=192759631">In the <A title="English language" href="http://en.wikipedia.org./wiki/English_language">English</A>-speaking world his best-known works are often the novels <I><A title="Les Misérables" href="http://en.wikipedia.org./wiki/Les_Mis%C3%A9rables">Les Misérables</A></I> and <A title="The Hunchback of Notre Dame" href="http://en.wikipedia.org./wiki/The_Hunchback_of_Notre_Dame"><I>Notre-Dame de Paris</I></A></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org./w/index.php?title=Victor_Hugo&oldid=192759631"><A title="Actress Juliette Drouet, Hugo's mistress" class="image" href="http://en.wikipedia.org./wiki/Image:Victor_Hugo-Drouet.jpg"><IMG width="264" height="324" border="0" class="thumbimage" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a2/Victor_Hugo-Drouet.jpg" alt="Actress Juliette Drouet, Hugo's mistress" /></A>
<DIV class="thumbcaption">Actress <A title="Juliette Drouet" href="http://en.wikipedia.org./wiki/Juliette_Drouet">Juliette Drouet</A>, Hugo's mistress</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org./w/index.php?title=Victor_Hugo&oldid=192759631"><A title="Victor Hugo, by Alphonse Legros." class="image" href="http://en.wikipedia.org./wiki/Image:Legros_-_Victor_Hugo.jpg"><IMG width="150" height="201" border="0" class="thumbimage" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Legros_-_Victor_Hugo.jpg/150px-Legros_-_Victor_Hugo.jpg" alt="Victor Hugo, by Alphonse Legros." /></A>
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Victor</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org./w/index.php?title=Victor_Hugo&oldid=192759631"><A title="Victor Hugo cabinet card by London Stereoscopic Company" class="image" href="http://en.wikipedia.org./wiki/Image:Victor_hugo_london_stereoscopic.jpg"><IMG width="180" height="279" border="0" class="thumbimage" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e6/Victor_hugo_london_stereoscopic.jpg/180px-Victor_hugo_london_stereoscopic.jpg" alt="Victor Hugo cabinet card by London Stereoscopic Company" /></A>
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Victor</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org./w/index.php?title=Victor_Hugo&oldid=192759631"> he became a passionate supporter of <A title="Republicanism" href="http://en.wikipedia.org./wiki/Republicanism">republicanism</A>, and his work touches upon most of the political and social issues and artistic trends of his time. He is buried in the <A title="Panthéon" class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org./wiki/Panth%C3%A9on">Panthéon</A>.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org./w/index.php?title=Victor_Hugo&oldid=192759631">He was born in 1802 in <A title="Besançon" href="http://en.wikipedia.org./wiki/Besan%C3%A7on">Besançon</A></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org./w/index.php?title=Victor_Hugo&oldid=192759631"><A title=""The Battle of Hernani" (1830)" class="image" href="http://en.wikipedia.org./wiki/Image:Victor_Hugo-Hernani%281%29.jpg"><IMG width="252" height="242" border="0" class="thumbimage" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8b/Victor_Hugo-Hernani%281%29.jpg" alt=""The Battle of Hernani" (1830)" /></A>
<DIV class="thumbcaption">"The Battle of <I>Hernani</I>" (1830)</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org./w/index.php?title=Victor_Hugo&oldid=192759631"><A title="Portrait of "Cosette" by Émile Bayard, from the original edition of Les Misérables (1862)" class="image" href="http://en.wikipedia.org./wiki/Image:Ebcosette.jpg"><IMG width="150" height="232" border="0" class="thumbimage" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Ebcosette.jpg/150px-Ebcosette.jpg" alt="Portrait of "Cosette" by Émile Bayard, from the original edition of Les Misérables (1862)" /></A>
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